Harry G. Fair Memorial Lectures
Each year, a special lecture is given in memory of Harry G. Fair, an outstanding OU alumnus. Harry G. Fair was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on June 3, 1916. He received his B. S. in Chemical Engineering in 1939. He joined Phillips Petroleum Company in 1939 and worked his way up to Vice President for Supply and Transportation, with responsibility for world-wide exchange of crude oil and all transportation facilities. In 1966, he joined the M.W. Kellogg Company as Executive Vice President, in charge of all engineering activities and became Executive Vice President of Coastal States Gas Corporation from 1971 until the time of his death on July 27, 1974. Harry G. Fair was active in service to society and to his alma mater. He was a member of a number of professional societies and was a licensed professional engineer.
This lecture is made possible by the Harry G. Fair Memorial Fund contributed by his widow, Jane Swift Fair. Arrangements are made by the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering.
Memorial Lecturers
| Year | Name and Announcement | From | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1975 | Stanley Learned (PDF) | Phillips Petroleum Co. |
| 2nd | 1976 | Harry L. Blomquist, Jr (PDF) | Coastal States Gas Co |
| 3rd | 1977 | Laurance S. Reid (PDF) | Ball-Reid Engineers Inc. |
| 4th | 1978 | Raymond W. Lowe (PDF) | E.I. DuPont de Nemours |
| 5th | 1979 | Charles R. Perry (PDF) | Perry Gas Companies |
| 6th | 1980 | A. B. Slaybaugh (PDF) | Conoco Inc. |
| 7th | 1981 | Robert S. Purgason (PDF) | Perry Gas Processors |
| 8th | 1982 | Lynn T. Reed (PDF) | Warren Petroleum Co |
| 9th | 1983 | B. H. Sellers (PDF) | Sellers Chemical Co. |
| 10th | 1984 | Richard G Askew (PDF) | Phillips Chemical Co |
| 11th | 1985 | John M Campbell (PDF) | John M. Campbell & co |
| 12th | 1986 | Stuart W. Churchill (PDF) | University of Pennsylvania |
| 13th | 1987 | Eli Ruckenstein (PDF) | SUNY Bufffalo |
| 14th | 1988 | C. Judson King (PDF) | University of California Berkeley |
| 15th | 1989 | James Wei (PDF) | M.I. T |
| 16th | 1990 | George A. Samara (PDF) | Sandia National Labs |
| 17th | 1991 | E.N. Lightfoot (PDF) | University of Wisconsin |
| 18th | 1992 | Dan Luss (PDF) | University of Houston |
| 19th | 1993 | Larry V. McIntire (PDF) | Rice University |
| 20th | 1994 | Christopher W. Macosko (PDF) | University of Minnesota |
| 21st | 1995 | Gary L. Haller (PDF) | Yale University |
| 22nd | 1996 | Scott H. Fogle (PDF) | University of Michigan |
| 23rd | 1997 | Keith E. Gubbins (PDF) | North Carolina State University |
| 24th | 1998 | Stuart L. Cooper (PDF) | Ohio State University |
| 25th | 1999 | George Stephanopoulous (PDF) | M.I. T |
| 26th | 2000 | Enrique Iglesia (PDF) | Univ of California Berkeley |
| 27th | 2001 | Ralph T. Yang (PDF) | Univ of Michigan |
| 28th | 2002 | Richard C. Alkire (PDF) | Univ of Illinois |
| 29th | 2003 | Nicholas A. Peppas (PDF) | Univ of Texas-Austin |
| 30th | 2004 | Robert C. Armstrong (PDF) | Massachusetts Inst of Tech |
| 31st | 2005 | James A. Dumesic (PDF) | Univ of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 32nd | 2006 | George Georgiou (PDF) | Univ of Texas at Austin |
| 33rd | 2007 | John M Prausnitz (PDF) | Univ of Calif Berkeley |
| 34th | 2008 | David J. Mooney (PDF) | Harvard |
| 35th | 2009 | Donald R. Paul (PDF) | Univ of Texas Austin |
| 36th | 2010 | Juan J. de Pablo (PDF) | Univ of Wisconsin Madison |
| 37th | 2011 | Peter C. Stair (PDF) | Northwestern University |
| 38th | 2012 | Charles Zukoski (PDF) | Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 39th | 2013 | Alexis T. Bell (PDF) | Univ of Calif Berkeley |
| 40th | 2014 | Mark Davis (PDF) | California Institute of Technology |
| 41st | 2015 | Antonios G Mikos (PDF) | Rice University |
| 42nd | 2016 | Nicholas L. Abbott (PDF) | University of Wisconsin |
| 43rd | 2017 | Philippe Sautet (PDF) | University of California |
